Sentence examples for shamble from inspiring English sources

'shamble' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is a verb that means to walk or move with a clumsy, unsteady gait. It can also refer to a disorderly or awkward state or condition. Example: The drunk man stumbled and shambled down the street, barely able to keep his balance.

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shamble

noun

One of a succession of niches or platforms, one above another, to hold ore which is thrown successively from platform to platform, and thus raised to a higher level.

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Andersson's people shamble about their daily rounds in a city that's perpetually overcast, chimneys belching effluent on the horizon, traffic in permanent gridlock.

The enemies, which shamble and threaten with greater impetuous than traditional undead foes, are fleshy nightmares garbed in barbed wire, gore-drenched rags and armed with a manner of blunt objects.

The mess of life, the outer stuff of their experience, often comes through as a more chaotic, ambiguous, loose-ended shamble as perceived by those whose memories are less filtered by the natural tendencies of the artist — by the way they are.

They bleat as they shamble & piss on each other without warning, or maybe as a warning, or in greeting.

The collection of footwear at DSW Designer Shoe Warehousee), situated in the same cheapo depot as the aforementioned Filene's, is so prodigious that you will enter into a state of hypnosis as you shamble along the aisles.

A Chicago group, One Book One Chicago, settled on Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird," and tens of thousands of local readers (by the estimate of Mary Dempsey, the commissioner of the Chicago Public Library) fell happily or doggedly into that famous good read, suppressing guilty flick-memories of Gregory Peck's tilting, anti-injustice chin and Robert Duvall's scary Boo Radley shamble.

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Predictions of 20%-30 20%-30ompliance imply they will have ample opportunity to denounce a shambles.

Peter Delamothe, a housing benefit consultant at HBinfo, said one council had identified 250 tenants wrongly ruled liable for the bedroom tax: "This is a shambles caused by the DWP failing to understand the significance of their own legislation".

Your early shows were pretty chaotic – how much of a shambles were you back then?

Amid the shambles in the ring, a Japanese official, as usual, read out a lengthy statement.

Richard Lakin The "swimming is dangerous" warning that I passed on Sunday as I shambled to my car, utterly exhausted, had more than a touch of irony about it.

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